Scott Draves

Scott Draves
Born 1968
Nationality American
Field Software art
Works Flame, Fuse, Bomb, Electric Sheep, Dreams in High Fidelity
Awards Prix Ars Electronica, Vida 2.0, Vida 4.0

Scott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames[1] and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep.[2][3] He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms. He is also a video artist[4][5] and accomplished VJ.[6]

In summer 2010, Draves' work was exhibited at Google's New York City office, including his video piece "Generation 243" which was generated by the collaborative influences of 350,000 people and computers worldwide.[7] Stephen Hawking's 2010 book The Grand Design used an image generated by Draves' "flame" algorithm on its cover. Known as "Spot,"[8] Draves currently resides in New York City.

Background

Draves earned a Bachelor's in mathematics at Brown University before continuing on to earn a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.[9]

References

  1. ^ Birch, K. (2007-08-20). "Cogito Interview: Damien Jones, Fractal Artist". http://www.cogito.org/Interviews/InterviewsDetail.aspx?ContentID=16808. 
  2. ^ "Sheep in Shining Armor". Discover Magazine. 2004-08. 
  3. ^ Wilkinson, Alec (2004-06-07). "Incomprehensible". New Yorker Magazine. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/07/040607ta_talk_wilkinson. 
  4. ^ Bamberger, A. (2007-01-18). "San Francisco Art Galleries - Openings". http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/011807.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11. 
  5. ^ "Gallery representing Draves' video art". Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20080606060122/http://www.baxterchangpatri.com/artwork.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11. 
  6. ^ "VJ: It's not a disease". Keyboard Magazine. 2005-04. http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/vj-its-not/apr-05/7446. 
  7. ^ Digital Art @Google Data Poetics Presents Scott Draves’ Generation 243.
  8. ^ Windley, P. (2006-05-07). "Art of Networks". http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1071.html. 
  9. ^ "Bibliography of Draves' CMU research papers". http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fox/staged-bib.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11. 

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